How Do I Know If I am Using Too Much Polish? (pics)

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I have polished about 15-20 cars now with my PC and have had good results, but now I am taking a closer look at my process to see if there is room for improvment. Recently i polished a 2001 Maxima with bad swirls while I was able to remove the swirls from the side panels the hood,roof and trunk OWNED me. I could not get them out with a yellow LC pad and OC. i even tried a 4 inch pad and it would not budge. So after talking to Attic i think i am using too much polish and working too big of area. I usually work from the front fender back I almost always use a orange pad. I usually make a circle of polish on the outside of the pad then a smaller circle right in the middle. I then dab the polish on the panel and spread on speed 3 then turn it up to 6. I work the polish on average 10 minutes till it is clear but to be honest i dont know if I am working enough. I have seen pics but sometimes pics are hard to judge exaclty how the polish should look like.



Also if I am polishing say a whole front fender at one shot with the amount of polish as stated is that too much or not enough? I usually do the whole front fenders then break up the rest of the panels.



I will try and load pics of the car.........
 
DieselMDX said:
Ummmm ok I loaded the pics into my gallery. How do I put them in a post?
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You need to right click on the image to get the URL address, then use the image icon:
insertimage.gif
and paste in the URL of the selected image.
 
DieselMDX said:
you are not going to believe this, i have a mac so i dont have a right click.....lol
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LOL.... I can't help you out with that then. There must be some way to view the image properties on a MAC to get the URL, and I'm sure it's pretty simple, but I have almost zero MAC experience. It might be holding down the CONTROL key while you click the mouse.
 
sounds to me like you may be right with using too much polish. I only put 5-6 small blobs on the pad, maybe a little bigger than a pea size. I think it caked up too much when I used more when I first started.
 
On a mac, use control and click wherever a right click is needed. I may be remembering wrong, but where you use Ctrl + V to paste, on a mac it might be apple key + V. Try it if the first doesn't work.



I don't know if I am allowed to link to other forums, but here are 2 guides I wrote on corvetteforum on how to sign up for photobucket(to host photos) and how to use it and post pics on a forum.



Everything should be the same, but replace wherever I refer to corvetteforum to autopia.



Good Luck,

80sRule / TriumphGT6
 
Grimm said:
sounds to me like you may be right with using too much polish.
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Yeah, that's my guess as well. I haven't used my OCP enough to really get the hang of it (and I've never used O compound) but it seems that these products need to be used more sparingly than what I'm used to. Anthony O. always surprises me with how little Optimum he uses.
 
TriumphGT6 said:
On a mac, use control and click wherever a right click is needed. I may be remembering wrong, but where you use Ctrl + V to paste, on a mac it might be apple key + V. Try it if the first doesn't work.



I don't know if I am allowed to link to other forums, but here are 2 guides I wrote on corvetteforum on how to sign up for photobucket(to host photos) and how to use it and post pics on a forum.



Everything should be the same, but replace wherever I refer to corvetteforum to autopia.



Good Luck,

80sRule / TriumphGT6
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thank you!, i already have a bucket so that would make it much easier
 
Just a stupid question from an absolute noob: Is it possible that too aggressive of a pad and working polish too long would (re)introduce swirls? What would happen in this case if softer pad is used and polishing is interrupted while there is still some polish left, before it becomes clear?
 
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